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Abstract
The NVIDIA RTX™ A4500 GPU is a dual-slot, 10.5 inch PCI Express Gen4 graphics solution based on the state-of-the-art NVIDIA Ampere Architecture. It is an actively cooled product capable of 200 W maximum graphics power.
The ThinkSystem NVIDIA RTX A4500 20GB PCIe Active GPU delivers hardware-accelerated ray tracing, revolutionary AI features, advanced shading, and powerful simulation capabilities to creative professionals.
This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the RTX A4500 GPU and its key features, specifications, and compatibility. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about the RTX A4500 GPU and consider its use in IT solutions.
Withdrawn: The ThinkSystem NVIDIA RTX A4500 20GB PCIe Active GPU is now withdrawn from marketing.
Introduction
The NVIDIA RTX™ A4500 GPU is a dual-slot, 10.5 inch PCI Express Gen4 graphics solution based on the state-of-the-art NVIDIA Ampere Architecture. It is an actively cooled product capable of 200 W maximum graphics power.
The NVIDIA RTX A4500 delivers hardware-accelerated ray tracing, revolutionary AI features, advanced shading, and powerful simulation capabilities to creative professionals. With a graphics memory footprint of 20 GB of GDDR6 memory, the A4500 GPU enables the most graphics-intensive applications run with the highest level of user experience, even with largest of data sets.
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Certified with a broad range of professional applications, tested by leading independent software vendors (ISVs) and workstation manufacturers, and backed by a global team of support specialists, NVIDIA RTX is the visual computing solution of choice for demanding enterprise deployments.
Part number information
The following table shows the part numbers for the RTX A4500 GPU.
Withdrawn: The ThinkSystem NVIDIA RTX A4500 20GB PCIe Active GPU is now withdrawn from marketing.
| Part number | Feature code | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 4X67A76726 | BNFD | ThinkSystem NVIDIA RTX A4500 20GB PCIe Active GPU |
The PCIe option part numbers includes the following:
- One RTX A4500 GPU with full-height (3U) adapter bracket attached
- Documentation
Features
The NVIDIA RTX™ A4500 combines high performance, enterprise reliability, and the latest RTX technology to help you achieve your best work in realtime. Built on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, the RTX A4500 combines 56 second-generation RT Cores, 224 third-generation Tensor Cores, and 7,168 CUDA® cores with 20GB of graphics memory to supercharge rendering, AI, graphics, and compute tasks.
Connect two RTX A4500s with NVIDIA NVLink to scale memory and performance with multi-GPU configurations, allowing professionals to work with memory intensive tasks such as large models, ultra-high resolution rendering, and complex compute workloads.
NVIDIA RTX professional graphics cards are certified with a broad range of professional applications, tested by leading independent software vendors and workstation manufacturers, and backed by a global team of support specialists. Get the peace of mind needed to focus on what matters with the premier visual computing solution for mission-critical business
The ThinkSystem NVIDIA RTX A4500 20GB PCIe Active GPU offers the following features:
- PCI Express Gen 4
- Four DisplayPort 1.4a connectors
- AV1 decode support
- DisplayPort with audio
- 3D stereo support with stereo connector
- NVIDIA GPUDirect® for Video support
- NVIDIA Quadro® Sync II compatibility
- NVIDIA RTX Experience™
- NVIDIA RTX Desktop Manager software
- NVIDIA RTX IO support
- HDCP 2.2 support
- NVIDIA Mosaic technology
- NVIDIA NVLink Technology
Technical specifications
The following table lists the specifications of the NVIDIA RTX A4500 GPU.
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| GPU Architecture | NVIDIA Ampere |
| GPU Memory | 20 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Interface | 300-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | Up to 640 GB/s |
| ECC | Yes |
| NVIDIA CUDA Cores | 7,168 |
| NVIDIA Tensor Cores | 224 third-generation Tensor Cores |
| NVIDIA RT Cores | 56 second-generation RT Cores |
| Single-Precision Performance | 23.7 TFLOPS (peak) |
| RT Core performance | 46.2 TFLOPS (peak) |
| Tensor Performance | 189.2 TFLOPS (peak) |
| NVLink support | Yes; 1x NVLink Bridge supported per pair of GPUs |
| Host Interface | PCI Express 4.0 x 16 |
| Power Consumption | 200 W |
| Thermal Solution | Active cooling |
| Form Factor | 4.4” (H) x 10.5” (L), FHFL, Dual Slot |
| Display Connectors | 4x DisplayPort (DP) 1.4a |
| Maximum simultaneous displays | 4x 4096 x 2160 @ 120 Hz, 4x 5120 x 2880 @ 60 Hz, 2x 7680 x 4320 @ 60 Hz |
| Encode / Decode Engines | 1x encode, 2x decode (+AV1 decode) |
| VR Ready | Yes |
| Graphics APIs | DirectX 12 Ultimate, Shader Model 6.6, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3 |
| Compute APIs | CUDA 11.6, DirectCompute, OpenCL 3.0 |
Server support
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
| Part Number | Description | AMD V3 | 2S Intel V3/V4 | 1S V3 | 4S 8S Intel V3/V4 | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4X67A76726 | ThinkSystem NVIDIA RTX A4500 20GB PCIe Active GPU | N | 3 | N | 3 | N | 4 | N | 3 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | 2 | 4 | N | N | N |
| Part Number | Description | AI Servers | Edge | Super computing | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4X67A76726 | ThinkSystem NVIDIA RTX A4500 20GB PCIe Active GPU | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Part Number | Description | Edge | 1S Intel V2 | 2S Intel V2 | AMD V1 | Multi node | AI | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4X67A76726 | ThinkSystem NVIDIA RTX A4500 20GB PCIe Active GPU | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Part Number | Description | SC | Dense V2 | 4S V2 | 8S | 4S V1 | 1S Intel V1 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SR150 (7Y54) |
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| 4X67A76726 | ThinkSystem NVIDIA RTX A4500 20GB PCIe Active GPU | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Part Number | Description | 2S Intel V1 | Dense V1 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4X67A76726 | ThinkSystem NVIDIA RTX A4500 20GB PCIe Active GPU | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
Operating system support
The following table lists the supported operating systems:
Tip: These tables are automatically generated based on data from Lenovo ServerProven.
| Operating systems | SR655 |
SR665 V3 |
SR650 V3 (4th Gen Xeon) |
SR655 V3 |
SR850 V3 |
SR860 V3 |
ST650 V3 (4th Gen Xeon) |
SR650 V3 (5th Gen Xeon) |
ST650 V3 (5th Gen Xeon) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Windows 10 | N | Y | Y | Y | N | N | N | Y | N |
| Microsoft Windows 11 | N | Y | Y | Y | N | N | N | Y | N |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2019 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y 2 | Y 2 | Y | Y | Y |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2022 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2025 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 | Y 1 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS or later with HWE kernel | N | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | N | N | N |
| Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS or later with HWE kernel | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y |
| Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS or later with HWE kernel | N | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or later with HWE kernel | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y 3 | N |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or later with HWE kernel | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
1 The OS is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.
2 For limitation, please refer Support Tip TT1591
3 Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS/Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
NVIDIA GPU software
This section lists the NVIDIA software that is available from Lenovo.
NVIDIA HPC Compiler Software
| Part number | Feature code 7S09CTO6WW |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| HPC Compiler Support Services | ||
| 7S090014WW | S924 | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Support Services, 1 Year |
| 7S090015WW | S925 | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Support Services, 3 Years |
| 7S09002GWW | S9UQ | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Support Services, 5 Years |
| 7S090016WW | S926 | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Support Services, EDU, 1 Year |
| 7S090017WW | S927 | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Support Services, EDU, 3 Years |
| 7S09002HWW | S9UR | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Support Services, EDU, 5 Years |
| 7S090018WW | S928 | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Support Services - Additional Contact, 1 Year |
| 7S09002JWW | S9US | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Support Services - Additional Contact, 3 Years |
| 7S09002KWW | S9UT | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Support Services - Additional Contact, 5 Years |
| 7S090019WW | S929 | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Support Services - Additional Contact, EDU, 1 Year |
| 7S09002LWW | S9UU | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Support Services - Additional Contact, EDU, 3 Years |
| 7S09002MWW | S9UV | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Support Services - Additional Contact, EDU, 5 Years |
| HPC Compiler Premier Support Services | ||
| 7S09001AWW | S92A | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Premier Support Services, 1 Year |
| 7S09002NWW | S9UW | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Premier Support Services, 3 Years |
| 7S09002PWW | S9UX | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Premier Support Services, 5 Years |
| 7S09001BWW | S92B | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Premier Support Services, EDU, 1 Year |
| 7S09002QWW | S9UY | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Premier Support Services, EDU, 3 Years |
| 7S09002RWW | S9UZ | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Premier Support Services, EDU, 5 Years |
| 7S09001CWW | S92C | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Premier Support Services - Additional Contact, 1 Year |
| 7S09002SWW | S9V0 | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Premier Support Services - Additional Contact, 3 Years |
| 7S09002TWW | S9V1 | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Premier Support Services - Additional Contact, 5 Years |
| 7S09001DWW | S92D | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Premier Support Services - Additional Contact, EDU, 1 Year |
| 7S09002UWW | S9V2 | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Premier Support Services - Additional Contact, EDU, 3 Years |
| 7S09002VWW | S9V3 | NVIDIA HPC Compiler Premier Support Services - Additional Contact, EDU, 5 Years |
Auxiliary power cables
The RTX A4500 option part number does not ship with auxiliary power cables. Cables are server-specific due to length requirements. For CTO orders, auxiliary power cables are derived by the configurator. For field upgrades, cables will need to be ordered separately as listed in the table below.
| Auxiliary power cables needed with the SR650 V3, SR655 V3, SR665 V3 |
|
* Additional components may be required to install the GPU. See the respective server product guide for details. |
| Auxiliary power cables needed with the ST650 V3 |
|
* The option part number is for ThinkSystem ST650 V2/V3 RTX A4500 GPU Power Cable Kit and includes both the 320mm and 660mm cables needed to install the GPU. See the ST650 V3 product guide for details. |
| Auxiliary power cables needed with the SR850 V3, SR860 V3 |
|
|
| Auxiliary power cables supplied with the SR655 |
|
* The option part number is for ThinkSystem SR655 GPU Cable Kit and includes both the 350mm and 250mm cables. See the SR655 product guide for details. |
Regulatory approvals
The RTX A4500 GPU has the following regulatory approvals:
- RCM
- BSMI
- CE
- FCC
- ICES
- KCC
- cUL, UL
- VCCI
Operating environment
The RTX A4500 GPU has the following operating characteristics:
- Ambient temperature
- Operational: 0°C to 50°C (-5°C to 55°C for short term*)
- Storage: -40°C to 75°C
- Relative humidity:
- Operational: 5-85% (5-93% short term*)
- Storage: 5-95%
* A period not more than 96 hours consecutive, not to exceed 15 days per year.
Warranty
One year limited warranty. When installed in a Lenovo server, the GPU assumes the server’s base warranty and any warranty upgrades.
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